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On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:28 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Kent Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:34 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:30 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Stewart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: Missing INDEX file in Ports
On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:00 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:Hi All,
Has anyone seen this before, I just installed 4.11 and in /usr/ports typed make search key="ghostscript" and the machine went away for a couple hours to generate an INDEX file. (this is a P75, unfortunately)
Has anyone else noticed the INDEX file is missing in the 4.11-RELEASE ports directory?
If you cvsup ports-all, INDEX[-56] is deleted. You want to cd /usr/ports make fetchindex
The fetch of a compressed file is much faster than generating it :).
Even faster would have been for it to be on the same CDROM that the rest of the ports directories were copied from.
You would have to go to the cvsweb.cgi attic to find out how many months it has been removed from ports.
Do you really think I care how long it's been removed?
Your missing the point. INDEX is supposed to be in the RELEASES on the CDROMs because the CD's are supposed to be self-contained, ie: you should not require an Internet connection to get a complete install. Otherwise there's no point in even bothering to release the CDROMS in the first place.
INDEX isn't in SNAPS and such because it makes no sense generating it for a ports tree that's open for committing since new ports could be added at any time. However the ports tree on the CDROM is static, not dynamic.
Please note the following:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html
Yeah, I totally agree, INDEX should be included in ports.tar.gz for at least RELEASES.
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